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Project idea: globally hosted / managed CockroachDB that lets developers quickly start building small apps cheaply or free using this database. This database h

Project idea: globally hosted / managed CockroachDB that lets developers quickly start building small apps cheaply or free using this database. This database has the potential to dethrone Spanner in a major way.

joris 9y ago
That’s on their roadmap: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/frequently-asked-questions.html#does-cockroach-labs-offer-a-cloud-database-as-a-service https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/frequently-asked-q...
- SoulMan 9y ago
  My Org/team is too conservative to use this is they have to hire ops and too froogle to use spanner.
  - kevincox 9y ago
    Why do you think that hosted cochroachdb would be cheaper then hosted spanner? Google has been optimizing spanner performance for years so I would expect that it will be cheaper to run for quite a while. Of course the markup can be different but I wouldn't expect it to make a huge difference.
    - tyingq 9y ago
      Maybe training? Spanner's lack of UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE requires a team that's trained pretty specifically on how it works.
  - ZeikJT 9y ago
    Frugal, froogle was the old name for google shopping.
    - SoulMan 9y ago
      Thanks. Frugal is exactly what I meant.
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Gigablah 9y ago
There’s arguably nothing to dethrone, Spanner is too cost prohibitive for small developers in the first place.
thinkloop 9y ago
I just started playing with spanner. The API is nice. Simple txs are a bit slow - seconds instead of milliseconds - ok for my use-case. I don't hear much about it though, few articles on HN, I was wondering how mature it was and how widely used it is. Is it common knowledge that it is used by a lot of orgs?
- etaioinshrdlu 9y ago
  De-throne in the sense of being the top-tier multi-master consistent transactional DB. I doubt too many people use Spanner outside of Google in reality. Google would likely eventually adopt cockroackdb if it was clearly better long term.

joris 9y ago

That’s on their roadmap: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/frequently-asked-questions.html#does-cockroach-labs-offer-a-cloud-database-as-a-service https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/frequently-asked-q...

SoulMan 9y ago
My Org/team is too conservative to use this is they have to hire ops and too froogle to use spanner.
- kevincox 9y ago
  Why do you think that hosted cochroachdb would be cheaper then hosted spanner? Google has been optimizing spanner performance for years so I would expect that it will be cheaper to run for quite a while. Of course the markup can be different but I wouldn't expect it to make a huge difference.
  - tyingq 9y ago
    Maybe training? Spanner's lack of UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE requires a team that's trained pretty specifically on how it works.
- ZeikJT 9y ago
  Frugal, froogle was the old name for google shopping.
  - SoulMan 9y ago
    Thanks. Frugal is exactly what I meant.

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Gigablah 9y ago

There’s arguably nothing to dethrone, Spanner is too cost prohibitive for small developers in the first place.

thinkloop 9y ago

I just started playing with spanner. The API is nice. Simple txs are a bit slow - seconds instead of milliseconds - ok for my use-case. I don't hear much about it though, few articles on HN, I was wondering how mature it was and how widely used it is. Is it common knowledge that it is used by a lot of orgs?

etaioinshrdlu 9y ago
De-throne in the sense of being the top-tier multi-master consistent transactional DB. I doubt too many people use Spanner outside of Google in reality. Google would likely eventually adopt cockroackdb if it was clearly better long term.